Performance New Performance Analytics Release Poor performance is one of the most common complaints we hear upon arrival to customer sites, and often for good reason. When users have time to “make the rounds” before the system returns a result (if it returns a result at all), they have the right to be frustrated. Unfortunately,
Big Data Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or Spark? Foo or Bar? (I made that last one up). This wealth
Big Data Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery and systems diagnostics. In a nutshell, they enable you to easily search through your log files, slice & dice them visually, drill into problem timeframes, and generally be the boss of knowing
Technical Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch For the past few months a friend has been driving me crazy with all his praise for Splunk. He was going on about how easy it is to install, integrate different sources and build reports. I eventually started playing around to see if it could be used for a personal
Big Data Using the ELK Stack to Analyse Donor's Choose Data Donor’s Choose is an online charity in America through which teachers can post details of projects that need funding and donors can give money towards them. The data from the charity since it began in 2000 is available to download freely here in several CSV datasets. In this article
Technical BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about the food, and I’m sure
Technical Monitoring OBIEE with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Monitoring the health of an OBIEE system and diagnosing problems that may occur is a vital task for the system’s administrator and support staff. It’s one that at Rittman Mead we help customers with implementing themselves, and also provide as a managed service. In this article I am
